Principles of Art
A principle of art and design used to draw attention to an area or object within the artwork.
What is Emphasis
Who sculpted "The Pietà"?
Who is Michelangelo
What are the golden symbols above the heads of religious holy figures in historical Western art called?
What are Halos
This word refers to the way in which different elements of an artwork are used, combined, and arranged in relation to each other.
What is Composition
The action of working with someone to produce or create something is called what?
A principle of art that uses or combines other elements to accent their similarities.
What is Harmony
What artist created "The Scream"?
Who is Edvard Munch
What style of art is the "Mona Lisa" painted in? This style also refers to an era in Italy starting in the 14th century and ending in the 17th century.
What is the Renaissance
What is the art or practice of using symbols, especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations?
What is Symbolism
What type of shapes are smooth-edged, curvy, and often found in nature?
What are organic shapes
A way of organizing the parts of a design so that one side duplicates or mirrors the other.
What is Symmetrical Balance
Who painted "The Therapist"?
What are the finger grooves on pilasters and columns called?
What are flutes
What is an early 20th-century art, literature, and drama movement focused on conveying subjective emotions and inner experiences rather than objective reality?
What is Expressionism
What is a form of art that is made by pasting cutout images together on a canvas or other surface?
What is collage
A type of coloring where two or more colors transition into each other gradually based on hue, saturation, value, or brightness.
What is Gradation
Who Painted "Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow"
Who is Piet Mondrian
What is the decorative top of a column or pilaster from classical architecture called?
What is a Capital
What is a principle of art that is used to create the characteristics of realism?
What is Proportion
What is a contour filled in with a dark value of color against a lighter background called?
What is a Silhouette
What are the two types of repetition?
What are rhythm and pattern
Who started the "ready-made movement" by turning a urinal upside down, signing it "R. Mutt," and placing it on a pedestal in a museum titled "Fountain"?
Who was Marcel Duchamp
What type of arch has a point in the center of the top from which the arches taper down on either side symmetrically? Hint: it was popular in the Middle Ages and succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
What is a Gothic arch
What modern art style often portrays dreamlike and irrational scenes with a sense of infinite space?
What is Surrealism
A person or thing having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases.
What is a Paradox